Thursday, March 29, 2012

Recall organizers had more than enough valid signatures to move forward with the Governor Walker and Lt. Governor Kleefisch recall elections.

By H. Nelson Goodson
March 29, 2012

Madison - On Thursday, the state Government Accountabilty Board (GAB) confirmed that more than enough recall valid signatures have been submitted to recall the governor. The GAB will meet on Friday morning to officially certify recall elections for both Republicans, Governor Scott Walker and Lieutenant Rebecca Kleefisch.
The GAB released the final numbers, recall organizers had turned in 931,053 signatures, which 26,114 were found invalid and 4,001 were duplicates and had been voided leaving a total of 900,938 valid signatures to recall Governor Walker.
The GAB also confirmed that Lt. Governor Kleefisch had a total of 809,000 valid recall signatures from 842,854 submitted, which 29,601 were found invalid and 4,263 were duplicates and were voided.
The GAB needed more than 540,000 valid signatures each for Governor Walker and Lt. Governor Kleefisch to certify a recall election.
On Friday, potential candidates for Wisconsin Governor and Lt. Governor will begin to circulate and collect the required 2,000 nomination signatures, including 400 signatures for Senate candidates. Candidates have until 5:00 p.m. on April 10 to gather the signatures needed inorder to get on the ballot. Both Governor Walker, Lt. Kleefisch and Republican Senators being recall will automatically be on the ballot, according to the GAB.
The recall elections have been targeted for the Primary Election on May 8. A primary election will be held only for any political party and offices for which more than one candidate qualifies for the ballot, according to the GAB. The General Election is expected for June 5.

About Me

"Words conveyed by wisdom and truth influence inevitable change, Las palabras que contienen sabiduria y verdad influyen inevitablemente al cambio", H. Nelson Goodson said.
Goodson is well known in the local organizing community network. Nationally, Goodson is one of the foremost respected immigration rights and reform journalist.
He is also one of America's foremost Latino civil libertarian.
The Badger Blogger 2008, Patrick wrote: Mr. H. Nelson Goodson, "You have covered things that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper won't and you cover it in a way they fear." Posted on Badger Blogger on August 17th, 2007 at 6:39 p.m.
Goodson was instrumental in helping to coordinate the national Immigration movement early in 2006, which drew millions of supporters for immigration rights and reform. Goodson further encouraged numerous members of the Latino entertainment world to endorse and support immigration reform throughout the nation in 2006, published in "El Conquistador Newspaper" issue on November 21, 2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Currently, Goodson has more than 32 years experience in news investigative reporting. (2015)

Immigration March 2007

Goodson marched with immigrants calling for a just comprehensive immigration reform, which would create a path for legalization for more than 13 million undocumented immigrants and to keep families together.